Monday, 13 August 2012

Swoon Soon! Captain America

The Ed Brubaker run on Captain America has defined the character for the naughties so it's with some considerable interest that we turn our attention to what the more-than-capable Rick Remender has in store when the title is re-launched in November. As he's talking (on iFanboy see here) about channelling the spirit of the Jack Kirby years it seems entirely appropriate that John Romita Jr will be providing the art.

created a new grammar of storytelling and a cinematic style of motion. Once-wooden characters cascaded from one frame to another — or even from page to page — threatening to fall right out of the book into the reader’s lap. The force of punches thrown was visibly and explosively evident. Even at rest, a Kirby character pulsed with tension and energy in a way that makes movie versions of the same characters seem static by comparison.

Ditko described his and Stan Lee's contributions in a mail interview with Gary Martin published in Comic Fan #2 (Summer 1965): "Stan Lee thought the name up. I did costume, web gimmick on wrist & spider signal".

Alan was born in Northampton, England to brewery worker Ernest Moore and printer Sylvia Doreen. He lived in a poor working class area, and, after passing the Eleven plus exam, attended Northampton Grammar School, but in 1970, at the age of 17, he was expelled for dealing LSD, later describing himself as "one of the world's most inept LSD dealers".With his first wife, Phyllis, he had two daughters, Amber and Leah. The couple also had a mutual lover, Deborah. In time, Phyllis, Deborah and the two children left Moore. On 12 May 2007, he married Melinda Gebbie, with whom he has worked on several comics.He currently lives in Northampton. He is a vegetarian, an anarchist,a practicing magician and occultist, and he worships a Roman snake-deity named Glycon, which he acknowledges to be a "complete hoax"